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"(Reporter question: The chant was really just repeating what you said...what you said in your tweet. Do you take that tweet back?)

You know what I'm unhappy with? I'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. I'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can say anti-Semitic things. I'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman, in this case a different congresswoman, can call our country and our people garbage. That's what I'm unhappy. Those people in North Carolina, that stadium was packed. It was a record crowd. And I could have filled it 10 times, as you know. Those are incredible people, those are incredible patriots but I'm unhappy when a congresswoman goes and said, 'I'm going to be the president's nightmare.' She's going to be the president's nightmare. She's lucky to be where she is, let me tell you. And the things that she has said are a disgrace to our country. Thank you very much everybody."

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President Donald Trump sounded a more defiant tone again Friday about the criticism surrounding his supporters' chants of "send her back" at a North Carolina rally Wednesday, claiming that those supporters are "incredible people" and "incredible patriots."

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Trump said he's not unhappy with the crowd's chants but rather "with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country," referring once again to Somali-born Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

"I'm unhappy when a congresswoman goes and said, 'I'm going to be the president's nightmare.' She's going to be the president's nightmare. She's lucky to be where she is, let me tell you," Trump said.

On Thursday, Omar told supporters she and her squad of progressive Democrats would "continue to be a nightmare" to President Trump because "his policies are a nightmare to us."